Word: towse
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In bygone days the job would have been not just daunting but preposterous. River towns still treasure tales of binging, brawling and murder among flatboatmen whose godlessness was a point of pride. The stereotype is outdated: massive consolidation hit the freight-barge business in the 1980s, and large firms like...
So many pop songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem...
Epps' brand of race relations is a democratic process which values a wide range of opinions but sometimes tows the line of bureaucratic inefficiency.
Philip Bard of Phil's Towing says his company tows an average of 400 cars each month because of street cleaning.
Besides having part of the city contract, Phil's also does private towing on the lucrative and busy stretch of Winthrop Street in Harvard Square. On the weekend, Bard said, Phil's tows between 10 to 15 cars on this short street.